Edson Severnini

Edson Severnini is an Associate Professor of Economics and Core Faculty of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College, a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Nova SBE, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the following programmes: Environment and Energy Economics, Children, Development of the American Economy, and Economics of Health. His research interests lie at the intersection of energy and environmental economics, economic history, and labor economics. His work focuses on examining the impacts of the expansion of energy access, pollution, and environmental regulation on local development, health outcomes, and firm behaviour since the age of electrification. He is also interested in the impacts of climate change on air pollution, electricity generation, and infectious disease, the effects of economic activity on environmental outcomes, and on racial issues in local labour markets and in higher education.

Prof. Severnini’s research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, and his work has been published at American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, AEA Papers and Proceedings, among other journals. Before coming to Boston College, Edson Severnini taught at Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz College), received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, his MSc in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and his BA in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

As a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, he is involved in the Strengthening safety nets in post-conflict and humanitarian contexts project.